[...] If you are using *nix, maybe you can use the `tee` command[1] and redirect the file to different places.
For example,
cat <somefile> | tee file1 | tee file2 > file3
On Unixes I know, only 1 process is needed: <infile tee outfile1 outfile2 outfile3 ... >/dev/null It does work!
** Rolf
I haven't tried it out but it should work.
[1]: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?tee
HTH,
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